Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Antonio Mancini (update)
I’ve seen a lot paintings by quite a number of painters over time, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone handle paint quite like nineteenth century phenomenon Antonio Mancini. I call him a phenomenon, both because his remarkable talent manifested itself at an early age, and because academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme called him that.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Kroyer's roses
Roses. Marie Krøyer seated in the deckchair in the garden by Mrs. Bendsen’s house, Peder Severin Krøyer On Google Art Project. Original is in the Skagens Museum. Enjoy the roses while they last.
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Catherine Drabkin
I had the opportunity over the weekend to attend a gouache workshop at the Delaware College of Art and Design (where I teach a course in Animation for the Web), conducted by Catherine Drabkin. Drabkin was a founding faculty member of the college, and has recently relocated to Pittsburgh. Drabkin works in oil and drawing…
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Eye Candy for Today: Boldini's Dispatch-Bearer
The Dispatch-Bearer, Giovanni Boldini Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and download arrow for high-res image. Image is even higher resolution than the crops I’ve shown here. A fantastic painter. Sometimes I think this guy rivals Sargent and Zorn. See my previous post on Giovanni Boldini.
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Eye Candy for Today: Tobias Stranover Parrots
Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel, Tobias Stranover A not-so-still-life. On Google Art Project, also hi-res on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has an 18mb high-res image.
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Rembrandt's elephants
A Rembrandt drawing figures in a story in New Scientist today, about the search for the earliest example of an Asian Elephant known to European scientists. It was determined that the previous presumed example was, in fact, an African elephant, and records were searched for another example of a true Asian Elephant. It turns out…